09/02/2026 03:37

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r mortar round detonated inside his camp, a few hundred meters to the east of his sandbaggedcommand post. Tonight he wouldn't add any blackribbons to the family picture he kept at his home, one for each terrorist he slew. That, too, suggested a very changed outlook. Fortunately mother is taking it well.

Noorzad would cherish the open-mouthed agony writ on that pilot's face for the rest of his life. Thus, the loss of income from legionary contributions, amounting to roughly one hundredand sixty million a year, hurt. They work. Below, flights of helicopters, some the huge IM-62s,ferried men, supplies and equipment forward.